If you would pay attention, activision were the ones managing the marketing for this game. Also, long term projections from two years ago do not count as ads or marketing. The people who actually took the hype for something that was supposed to be accurate, and made a massive deal about every vid doc released are the problem. They assumed that every little tidbit and rumor were some kind of guaranteed thing, and looked for meaning where there was none. I am not among their number. I did not expect very much at all and was pleasantly surprised with this game. I will admit that the game does not stack up very well against what you think you were promised, but that so called "promise" never actually happened. When you look at the game, independent of the hype it generated, it actually is pretty good. It isn't the next DooM or anything. It isn't revoloutionary. But then again, who ever said it had to be? It still plays fine (I attest to virtually no bugs or errors) and shooting aliens never really gets old. I freely admit that it is not the best game in history, but it does not have nearly as many flaws as you say it does. Heck, the artwork alone makes it nice enough for me, let alone the spot-on shooting mechanics.